At present, Liu Bei does not want to leave Luoyang.
It doesn't make much sense to leave Luoyang at this time. His political base is in Luoyang, most of his supporters are in Luoyang, and the young people in the ancient literature school who admire him and are willing to listen to his orders are also in Luoyang.
He didn't have enough strength before, and he hadn't had time to integrate his basic base and truly make it his own.
The purpose of attacking Hebei this time is to gain credit and a higher status, and then truly take advantage of this basic base, turn it into something of our own, and build up our own political and military teams.
He wants to use the hen that lays the egg to create his own world among the ancient literature school.
Then it’s time to plan to go to other places to train the team and accumulate experience.
Leaving Luoyang at this time, the plan is not perfect.
Fortunately, the preparations made before were more effective, and Liu Hong couldn't leave him for a while. Otherwise, if Liu Bei left him in Jizhou, all his hard work in Luoyang would have been in vain.
Liu Bei began to feel dissatisfied with Yuan Wei and his group.
So his attitude is very clear.
"I support His Majesty's attitude. At this time, it is indeed inconvenient for my teacher to return to Luoyang and be promoted to Sangong. It is also a good choice to hand over Jizhou to him to govern. The teacher will definitely stabilize the situation in Jizhou, and I am still junior. There is no point in staying in Jizhou.
When you go back, you can tell Zhang Changshi and explain my thoughts. Also, you have to help me thank Zhang Changshi and reassure him that the affairs in Jizhou will not be spread to Luoyang. More things will happen when I return. Luoyang will discuss with him later. "
Liu Bei told Zuo Feng his attitude, and he conveyed it on his behalf.
Zuo Feng quickly followed the order and left.
Liu Bei knew that Lu Zhi had always had a dream of the Three Gongs, and he didn't mind making some efforts for Lu Zhi's dream of the Three Gongs.
But it really doesn't work at this moment.
Letting Lu Zhi stay in Jizhou for a year and a half is really a good choice.
With his merits, qualifications and prestige, coupled with his one and a half year experience as a state pastor, it is certain that he will be promoted to Sangong after returning to Luoyang, even more absolute than now.
At present, we can only aggrieve the teacher and stay in Jizhou to deal with the complicated post-war affairs here.
After Zuo Feng returned to Luoyang, the situation on the southern battlefield and the eastern battlefield gradually became clear.
On the southern battlefield, Zhang Mancheng, a pillar of the Yellow Turban Army, was killed in the internal strife in Wancheng. The Yellow Turban Army split internally, and some people surrendered in Kaicheng. Zhu Jun sent his troops to attack, and the Wancheng Yellow Turban Army completely collapsed.
Then Zhu Jun sent his army south again, sent troops to Runan County, and killed everyone in Runan County. The Yellow Turbans of Runan County were beaten to pieces, and the Yellow Turbans of Runan County were unable to fight back.
On the eastern battlefield, Huangfu Song's Yellow Turban Army, which had defeated him, became even more fierce.
The Yellow Turban Army in Dongjun was almost killed by him, and all three Qu commanders died in his hands, and he passed them to the capital.
After defeating the Yellow Turban Army in Taishan County, he killed all the captured Yellow Turban Army.
Almost 40,000 people died before and after him, all of whom were beheaded by him and built as Jingguan in Dongjun and Taishan counties to show off their force and intimidate the unyielding.
Huangfu Song's ferocity directly caused many small units of the Yellow Turban Army to lose their fighting spirit after hearing about it, and immediately fled towards the Jiangnan area, not daring to stay in the Central Plains.
Huangfu Song's evil name is widely spread in Yanzhou area, which can stop children from crying at night.
Zhu Jun and Huangfu Song's military success was a foregone conclusion and irreversible, and the nationwide Taiping Tao uprising came to an end.
It looked like it was all over.
So after receiving the news from Luoyang, Liu Hong was overjoyed and immediately held a formal post-war meeting to celebrate the victory on the one hand and to discuss merit and rewards on the other.
The awards given to Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun are actually not very controversial.
Huangfu Song was the military spokesperson of the eunuch group. Although the eunuchs themselves fought fiercely among themselves, Huangfu Song did a good job of suppressing his ambition before he wanted to advance. Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong did not succeed. Lu Qiang recovered and gave Huangfu Song some time. I won a good reward.
Because of Huangfu Song's meritorious service and his family background as a general, he was worshiped as General Zuo by the imperial court, and the Jin Dynasty granted him the title of Marquis of Huaili. He was entitled to the taxation of Huaili and Meiyang counties and a total of 3,000 households.
The rewards Zhu Jun received were also very generous.
He defeated at least 50,000 Yellow Turban troops in Nanyang and Runan, and killed five or six Qushuai. His contribution was no less than that of Huangfu Song.
So Zhu Jun was worshiped as General Right by the imperial court, and was granted the title of Marquis of Qiantang, with a settlement of 3,000 households.
Then came Lu Zhi’s reward.
Above the court, under the nervous gaze of the two major factions of the Ancient Literature School and the Modern Literature School, Liu Hong nodded towards Zhang Rang, who read out the edict of the award.
Lu Zhi was worshiped as a former general, appointed as the shepherd of Jizhou, and granted the title of Marquis of Zhuo, with a settlement of 3,000 households.
The factional struggle that lasted for more than half a month has come to an end.
When they learned about this reward decision, the officials of the Ancient Literature School in the court were extremely surprised.
Yuan Wei was stunned.
Xun Shuang was stunned.
Cai Yong was stunned.
Ma Rixi was also stunned.
Zheng Xuan lowered his head, his eyes somewhat uncertain.
It was normal for them to be surprised, because this was different from the information they had learned before.
Some time before the decision on the award was made, the modern literature school and the ancient literature school were arguing endlessly over the issue of Lu Zhi's award. Both sides refused to give in to each other, and they were evenly matched. It is said that the attitude of the emperor was also affected by both parties, and was quite unpredictable.
However, a few days ago, because of Yuan Wei's new letter, rumors spread in the palace that the emperor was very interested in Lu Zhi taking up the post of Taiwei and believed that Lu Zhi had the qualifications.
As a result, when things came to a head, there were unexpected complications.
what is going on?
They looked at the Jinwen School officials with anger.
The officials of Jinwen School were not only extremely surprised, but also extremely happy.
Especially Yang Ci, when he heard that Lu Zhi was appointed as the shepherd of Jizhou, he was stunned at first, and then became ecstatic.
The smile on his face was about to burst out, as if a brilliant chrysanthemum was blooming on his face.
They won!
Preserving Yang Ci's position as Taiwei is equivalent to preserving the possibility of the Jinwen school's re-emergence. It is of great significance to the entire school and to high-ranking families!
Yang Ci smiled happily. When he went to see Lu Zhi, Yuan Wei and others, he found that their faces were not good, so he became even happier.
Among the officials of the Ancient Literature School, Yuan Wei and Xun Shuang were a little restless.
As the "two devils" in the academic field, Yuan and Xun both understand it very well.
But they obviously did not expect the sudden change in the situation. Liu Hong began to engage in political balancing techniques and began to engage in internal struggles among scholars.
The imperial power seems to have begun to care less about the threat to imperial power posed by the "rituals" of the Modern Literature School.
The imperial power should have been more interested in the ancient literary school. This wave of ancient literary schools gave the greatest help to the modern literary school's counterattack, even to the imperial power.
But now, it seems that the wind direction in the court is about to change.
When the ancient literature school was weak, the imperial power supported the ancient literature school and the modern literature school to compete in the arena. They watched helplessly as the ancient literature school did not respect martial ethics and made a sudden advance, which made the modern literature school dizzy and made the old man's five lightning whips fail. Meaningless.
But just when the Ancient Literature School was preparing to make persistent efforts to kill the Modern Literature School in one fell swoop, the emperor suddenly changed his strategy. At this critical moment, he did not follow the trend of the Ancient Literature School replacing the Modern Literature School and did not let Lu Zhi return to Beijing to serve as the Third Duke.
The state pastor and the state governor were of no importance on this issue. Lu Zhi would never come back anyway.
So the officials of the Ancient Literature School looked at me and I looked at you, and their expressions were all bad.
On such a day that was supposed to be a joyful day, they felt gusts of cold wind coming, making them very uncomfortable.
(End of chapter)
